Students talk biracial heritage

Before a gathering of students, members of the Black Student Alliance at Yale and Students of Mixed Heritage and Culture examined the implications of the biracial character of its 44th president, Barack Obama.

The 15 students present for the discussion began by asking whether Obama adopted a black identity during the campaign, although even that label was later broken down and analyzed. Several students said it was wrong to generalize all African Americans under a common “black” umbrella.

Discussion then turned to whether Obama would have won had he not been biracial.